It's the SciFi channel miniseries umm serieses, which are significantly closer to the story presented in the books than the original Dune movie, which while good, diverts so far from the story I'm not quite sure Lynch even read the books. (although the SciFi series, like the original movie, messed up Idaho's first death, ohh well can't get everything right)

skininkummm, you are aware that Dune [the movie] was based on Dune [the book] written in the 6Ts by Frank Herbert, aren't you??? just checking, cos your comment kinda makes it sound like you're missing that little fact.

Regarding the original Dune movie: I recall hearing something about the fact that it was totally abridged and that a "full" director's (6hrs) version of the movie exists. It would seem to make sense to me given how much of the book it chopped. Anyone know anything about that?

455H47"ummm, you are aware that Dune [the movie] was based on Dune [the book] written in the 6Ts by Frank Herbert, aren't you??? just checking, cos your comment kinda makes it sound like you're missing that little fact."

I knew it was based on a book, but I'm not up to date on what happened between what's in the book vs. what's in the movie. I'm not a hardcore fan. I do like a good movie in any genre, just that it was not easy to follow. Great FX though, I just don't like it as much as my friend does. On the other hand, he thinks my obsession with everything Matrix is a little disturbing.

JOSH: There's this flat screen inside with pictures on it and you read it. And when you get down to the bottom you have to make a choice of what the character's going to do...Like if he going to go in and fight the dragon then you have to push one of the buttons.

PAUL: Excuse me.

JOSH: Paul.

PAUL: I don't get it.

JOSH: Well, it's a comic book that....

SUSAN: See, there's a computer chip inside which stores the choices, so when you reach the end of the page, you decide where the story goes. That's the point.

MR. M: Terrific Susan.

SUSAN: A kid makes his own decision.

MR. M: This is really possible?

SUSAN: Yeah. In fact, it's a very simple program. Isn't that right?MAN: So what happens when you run out of choices?

SUSAN: Well, that's the great thing. You can just sell different adventures. Just pop in a new disk and you get a whole new set of options.

JangoFett,Ya, I still have some of them, I particularly remember the dinosaur one...can't remember the title, but the logo was the sillouette of a kid jumping through some kind of stargate-lookin' portal.

A few people mentioned that the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries was more accurate to the book than the feature movie, but as an obvious fan of the first book, I beg to differ. The horrid casting, overhauling of the dialogue, plot structure, thematic points and terrible set design made the feature length film look waaayy better than I ever thought it could. True, the theatrical release had those stupid wierding modules, ruined the character of Baron Harkonnen and cut out some crucial scenes (like Paul's knife fight with Jamis that won him a place in Stilgar's tribe), but it LOOKED correct, was cast correctly (except for the role of Gurney Halleck) and had Frank Herbert as an actual consultant on the set. The Sci-Fi Channel, as usual, substituted boobies for substance and blew a golden opportunity to do something right.

As for David Lynch, supposedly, he did Dune as part of a deal. For directing Dune, he got to make two of his own films.